John Pollard @johnlpollard Twitter profile

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

The excitement he gets from trying to bash other developers work is terrible. No developer should feel joy for trying to trash what someone worked hard on.

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@t3dotgg

2 months

Everyone was so busy showing Hey's performance problems that they forgot to show how broken it is. What do you think happens if I press the "enter" key twice?

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@AdamRackis He gave his take on something that happened and you personally attacked him. I’d rather debate ideas than talk down about somebody else.

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@johnlpollard

2 months

Ruby 3.3 upgrade helping response times!

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@johnlpollard

2 months

@noahflk @dvassallo I just tried it on my Nokia phone on the top of a mountain with an out-of-date Opera mini browser while my four kids were whining & complaining and let me tell you - what a terrible experience!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

Top 10 apps on @buzzsprout from 2015 to 2019 animated per year. Let me know if you have any questions! I love this stuff. I will be posting more throughout the conference! #podcasting #podcasttrends #Evolutions2020

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

5 months

🎉 I'm excited to announce our app is now approved for public release! 🚀 Navigating through rejections similar to what @dhh faced with the @heyhey app was tough. But, leveraging Strada & Turbo-iOS made it a really fun experience. It's great to be able to build quickly with

Cameron Moll

@cameronmoll

5 months

Thrilled to announce Buzzsprout's new iOS app! 🎉 This represents a massive amount of work by our team over the last several months. Essentially a zero-to-one effort, we've arm wrestled countless UI decisions big and small to produce the best possible experience within the

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John Pollard

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29 days

Turbo-Native and Strada work well!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

20 days

Which do you do? module API module Episodes class ShowTest OR API::Episodes::ShowTest

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

Just published my slides from my talk at @railsconf for anyone who wants the code and links from them. Insights Gained From Developing A Hybrid Application Using Turbo-Native And Strada.

JohnPollard-hybrid-app-RailsConf2024.pptx

JohnPollard-hybrid-app-RailsConf2024.pptx - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

The most overlooked feature of Ruby on Rails is the developer experience (DX) – the sheer joy of coding and the remarkable efficiency it offers in handling both speed and complex problems. It’s similar to the criticisms against Tailwind CSS. People say, "You can't do inline

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

A lot of changes to do this!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@DanPriceSeattle This is a hilarious review to put on the back of your book! Haha “Pure, unadulterated socialism....I hope this company is a case study in MBA programs on how socialism does not work, because it's gonna fail.”--Rush Limbaugh

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

There is probably more refactoring (especially renaming) that could be done but this relieves a lot of stress and is like a breathe of fresh air. 😍 The left is scary and screws the next developer. The right is testable, maintainable, and able to be understood. You can change it

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

How's my #podcast doing? Are we successful? This animated chart ranks all @buzzsprout podcasts using percentiles for avg number of plays episodes received in their first 90 days. Percentile 50% -- 50 plays 75% -- 125 plays 90% -- 367 plays 99% -- 3593 plays

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

1 month

Using turbo-frames and loading=lazy with cached results, is there a way to only send a request if the result is not cached? If I have the result cached, then just show it.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

I really liked what @AmandaBPerino said and did with #railsworld by using all Ruby on Rails services. This got me thinking, where can I find a list of all websites and services built using RoR? I would love to do the same @buzzsprout and in my personal life.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

18 days

If you could not make it to @railsconf 2024 but want to know more about Turbo-native, Strada, and all the decisions we made for our iOS app - check out my talk on YouTube. Let me know if you have any questions!

RailsConf 2024 - Insights Gained from Developing a Hybrid Application...

Insights Gained from Developing a Hybrid Application Using Turbo-Native and Strada by John PollardIn this session, we delve into the complexities and benefit...

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

What is the Rails browser debugger that people are using now? I believe there was one mentioned at @railsconf in one of the lightning talks. I used to use rails panel and metarequest but it had an issue with Rails 7.

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John Pollard

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5 months

I'm proud to have been selected to speak at #RailsConf this year! I'm going to share some stuff before the conference but let me know if you want to chat about our experience with Turbo Native and Strada. Many thanks to @tomrossi7 for the talk idea.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

For those like me that don't know much about morphdom vs Idiomorph here is a good description of each.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

Thankful for @tenderlove keynote at @railsconf and his contributions to the rails community! So much so that I’m channeling my inner Patterson to become a better programmer!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

I have reflected on Rails World and have come to the conclusion that there are two clear winners from the conference. 1. The Rails Community 2. BeerTemple Do you agree @adrianthedev @rmcastil @mbuckbee ? 😂

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

28 days

An awesome post highlighting Buzzsprout's 15-year journey in supporting podcasters! Great job @kfinn

15 Years of Buzzsprout

Buzzsprout is 15, which is like 100 in Internet years. And if we're being honest, there were parts of the brand that were showing their age. The logo was cliché and the interface was feeling a...

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

"Rails is dead. It can't scale. No one wants to build the entire app themselves. Multiple person frameworks are where it's at. Developer happiness is a myth. Microservices will always be the future."

chaotic memes

@memechaotic

1 year

What is he saying?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

I presented this during my talk @podcastmovement - some have stated that podcast episodes are getting shorter. According to our numbers @buzzsprout , I did not find that to be true - the average duration as been pretty steady year over year. #evolutions2020 #podcasttrends

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

1 month

The number of background jobs processed by Buzzsprout since we switched to sidekiq years ago!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

So what did everyone think of @railsconf ? I loved getting to see so many people in the rails community again!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 years

“Joe Rogan Search Traffic Has Dropped 40% Since His Spotify Exclusive Began” He didn’t go exclusive for more traffic. Spotify didn’t bring him in to increase his traffic. He took money. Spotify got subscribers.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

I can't wait until my talk on Podcast Trends at @PodcastMovement next Thursday! These graphs have been so much fun to make. I even have animated charts showing trends over time - per year and month! 😍😍 #SneakPeek #podcasting #Evolutions2020

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

@nateberkopec That was with slow 3g? What a waste of time that tweet was, fishing for an issue. Again I think so many people undervalue developer happiness.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

1 month

Our Android app utilizing Turbo-native and Strada is live!

Buzzsprout - Apps on Google Play

Podcasting made easy

play.google.com

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

Who is someone in the Ruby on Rails community I might not follow, but definitely should?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

Since everyone loved the last apps chart, here is another one showing the top 15 apps on @buzzsprout per month from 2015 - 2019. Now dont just see ranking but also the comparative size (number of plays) to each other and who is trending! #podcasting #podcasttrends #Evolutions2020

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John Pollard

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3 months

How does the Rails community decide what goes into Rails 8? For instance, I saw Kamal will be the default which heavily influences the community at large. I haven't used it yet and I'm excited to try it but genuinely curious how it's decided that this is best for everyone. Any

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

At @buzzsprout , we love the #ShapeUp method from @basecamp ! 🙌 We use 6-week cycles, 2-week cooldowns, epicenters, pitches, and appetites. Do you follow Shape Up too? What tweaks do you make for your team? Let's share tips! 💡👇

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

Our family is welcoming another baby who is in foster care and a sibling to our oldest (who we adopted). We already have 3 kids with one 6 months old and needing surgery soon. Your thoughts and prayers are much appreciated during these next few months! We definitely need them!

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John Pollard

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4 months

Any Ruby on Rails programmers out there using Zed? If so, any tips or tricks? Also I hooked up GPT-4, any tips to maximize that?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

So excited for this book! If you haven't read any of his books check out Unoffendable today!

Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

www.amazon.com

Brant Hansen

@branthansen

4 years

New book coming out really soon. You can order it now if you want! Or not. WAIT: No... it's now required. A lesser-known part of the stimulus act.

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John Pollard

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4 years

How often should I publish my #podcast ? Left chart shows how often people at @buzzsprout are publishing. Roughly 40% publish around once a week (5-9 days) What are top #podcasters doing? Theres no statistical significance that they publish differently from everyone else

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

We aren't selling, but we are hiring! We are hiring for a Support Specialist to provide remarkable support to Buzzsprout Podcasters, through email conversations, article development, and internal communication. DM me if you're interested or know of a good fit.

Podnews podcasting news

@Podnews

2 months

Co-listening: podcasting could be bigger than we think: Also, is a podcast hosting company about to be sold?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@JamesClear Winning has a price. Leadership has a price. That man has heart! That is why he is the GOAT.

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@johnlpollard

2 months

For stimulus tags, does anyone do something like C or D? I tend to prefer the closest thing to the output (A) but D is the most DRY.

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@johnlpollard

2 months

Do you prefer using content_tag or straight HTML? Also, do you put it inline or use partials? Does anyone know what the advantage is to each?

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John Pollard

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4 years

I did a Podcast Trends talk at a recent Jax Podcaster’s Unite meetup at the @buzzsprout headquarters. You can view it on youtube at #podcast #podcasttrends

2020 Podcast Trends

Download the 2020 Podcast Trends slides: https://bit.ly/2TfS0xBIn Buzzsprout's first podcast trends deep-dive report, John Pollard breaks down the 2020 Podca...

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John Pollard

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3 months

It's been a lot of blast developing our app and discovering ways to speed up the process - all while ensuring a native look and feel. I'm excited to see where the community is headed with tools like Turbo-native and Strada!

RailsConf

@railsconf

3 months

Meet #speaker @johnlpollard , VP of Software Development ✨ John Pollard currently leads the development of Buzzsprout, a podcast hosting application used by over 100k podcasters, and has written RoR applications for over 10 years. Learn more: #RailsConf

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

1 year

Was someone hungry when they named these? 🤔

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

A great video by @yarotheslav on coding mobile navigation!

#168 Mobile footer navigation

You use your thumb to click on your phone. That's why all mobile apps have footer navigation. A good web app should also have footer navigation on a mobile (small) screen! Episode source code: htt...

superails.com

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

8 months

Does anyone know when Turbo-Rails version 8 is supposed to come out? I'm looking forward to morphing!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@garyvee Want some more cards?? I’ve had these in a box for years.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

9 months

What are great Twitter communities to follow for Ruby and Rails? Anyone in particular to follow? I’ve recently started following this community

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@herokustatus Down again?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

I love the focus of developer happiness in Rails. Truly underrated by many. It got me wondering - is business health ever at odds with developer happiness? If so, how do you manage that?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

Anyone else still not unpacked from #railsworld ? 😬

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John Pollard

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2 months

Whenever I need to decode, encode, escape, unescape, remove tags, remove characters, or any other string manipulation - I always feel like a beginner again. Anyone else or just me?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

Pretty cool seeing the river and @railsconf sign from the hotel! #railsconf

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@buzzsprout @GIPHY Is there one for “please subscribe” or “please rate my podcast”? Because everyone knows you’re not a real podcaster unless you are posting those everywhere!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@AlbanBrooke Ah no man - this tweet wasn't even about you! This tweet is for all those people who think they're so cool with microphones in their twitter profile pictures.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

Left chart is % of podcasts per category on @buzzsprout . Right chart is median episode plays at 90 days per category. As you can see, there are a lot of churches with podcasts and many do nothing with them. We have a small % of history podcasts but they very high quality #podcast

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@buzzsprout Again the lesson here is that we should try to be consistent but prioritize quality over quantity - great content lives on, poor content dies quickly. You can see this from the percentile charts, top podcasts keep getting plays many days later while other podcasts do not.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

@yarotheslav @rails One person framework made for developer happiness. How isn’t everyone drawn to Rails?!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@jasonfried Here are some helpful notes for anyone who can't watch the whole thing!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

“Progress over stability” -DHH A great reminder that can easily be forgotten. #RailsWorld

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@johnlpollard

2 months

Do you prefer using content_tag or straight HTML? Also, do you put it inline or use partials? Does anyone know what the advantage is to each?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

19 days

“The most common error of a good engineer is optimizing things that should not exist.” I find this to be true. It has something to do with the way the brain is wired. It’s so pleasing to optimize things we understand but we tend to forget the ultimate goal and purpose.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

1 month

@excid3 I didn't know I could just do this! Rails.cache.exist?( @ad_match_podcast )

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@amix3k @awilkinson Yea I’ve always understood that as people not wanting to risk the extra effort to do that. At some point you cash your chips in and at some point you have more than enough.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

6 months

@tomrossi7 For the record, I did NOT start that conversation!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

5 months

@john_gorri @dhh @heyhey I am going to share more soon! Yes, this was all Rails utilizing Hotwire.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

The new iPad Pro has better specs than most MacBook pros out there. But can you even code Ruby on Rails with an iPad? Does anyone actually do it?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

Top 10 countries for plays on @buzzsprout from 2015 to 2019 animated per year. India and Sweden make the top 10 but can't hold it for long. It's crazy how the ranking in 2015 ends up being the same in 2019. #podcasting #podcasttrends #Evolutions2020

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

28 days

How do you stay connected with your remote team if you don't do 1-on-1s with them? I currently do not do them with my team but am thinking about it because I want everyone to feel more connected and I want them to have an opportunity to discuss what is ever on their mind.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 years

@ChickfilA my wife’s account got hacked and people are buying brownies on brownies in another state! What can we do? Is this a known problem? We called the store and they said theyve been hearing reports about this.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

@GV1180 @joemasilotti @AmandaBPerino @buzzsprout I love the idea! I want a list of start ups and businesses that may be more established like shopify or appsignal. Let me know if I can help with this!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

I'm not a 100% always TDD person, but I don't know how you can maintain code without tests. 1. I usually riff (from @kaspth ) 2. write a couple (not exhaustively) of tests 3. finalize code and tests 4. deploy 5. monitor issues 6. write tests for issues 7. fix issues 8. Repeat 5

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@Taylor_Nieman Wow way to make me feel like a slacker... :) Keep up the good work!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

@yarotheslav I'm still learning! 🤪

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 years

@jasonfried You should check out Languatalk from @donpottinger ! Sounds like it’s exactly what you are looking for created by a really nice guy.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@buzzsprout The next top 10 are Google Podcasts Pocket Casts Player FM Bullhorn Podcast Republic Breaker Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing iHeartRadio Downcast

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@blythebrum #false #nottrue #Idontbelieveit #okmaybeitstrue #buthashtagsaresocool #theyturnblue #bitoin #election #jetssuck #amidoingthisright

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

@excid3 @remote_ruby @dhh @rails Will there be a new blog demo in the future using solid cache, solid queue, SQLite, and disk storage all on one machine?!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

@pdabrowski6 Our variants need to be created right away. Instead of being preprocessed in a background job or created when requested, certain variants need to be generated when the original is attached. Also we don't want our server to be hit at all, so proxies don't make sense. We want the

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1 month

@cameronmoll Looks like fun!

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@johnlpollard

3 months

@kaspth @marcoroth_ @railsconf This photo is how you know you’ve made it! 😆

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

YJIT was enabled for both Ruby 3.2.2 and 3.3.2

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@naval @shl @dhh do you find this to be true?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

@AlbanBrooke I asked AI for a podcast host selling joke and this is what I got. Honestly not that bad! Why did the podcast host decide to sell his microphone? Because he couldn't handle the feedback!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

@jmcharnes We fly in Tuesday morning!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

@dhh I assume you're indirectly responding to my post asking how the Rails community or Rails Core decides what goes into Rails 8. I was genuinely asking - not even against this. Is the Chef the experts or just you? When I asked people in person, they seemed to look around and whisper

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

Just finished DRiVE by @DanielPink . I’ve never read any of his works and I was truly impressed. I loved all the research that went into it. He’s a great writer and I look forward to readIng more.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

Are these two images the same thing? 😂

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

@mjackson Not me! Turbo has been so nice.

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 years

I love the podcasting community and glad we could help!

Justin Jackson

@mijustin

3 years

💯 Big thanks to @johnlpollard at @buzzsprout . (He preemptively reached out to us) Shows a lot of class. ❤️

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How do you handle params like this? 1. No days param in URL means use default value in controller 2. Days param set in URL, cast to int, filter last n days. 3. Days is all days so set to 999999 or "all"?? What is a better pattern?

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John Pollard

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3 years

@CJChateau @kingof4thPod @buzzsprout As we are opening traffic back up, it is still blocking some legitimate traffic. We are still working on it!

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John Pollard

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5 months

@dhh @buzzsprout Strada allowed us to add native components so that users can have a better interaction with the app while keeping it all web-driven. So now I can add a native title sharing, or page menu - all without needing a new app build accepted by Apple. I can make a change in minutes

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

3 months

@winsletts @cnorm35 @railsconf Be there tomorrow!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

@AlbanBrooke @PodcastMovement It was so great to meet a fellow okie - @theMattMarr !

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John Pollard

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2 months

@cnorm35 I ran into a similar issue. We have messages being read once you view them and with instaclick they were getting prematurely marked read. I believe I added it to the individual link, adding it to the parent div would be nicer!

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

4 years

A good change leader never thinks, “Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people.” A change leader thinks, “How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people” From the book, Made to Stick. #TuesdayThoughts

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

10 months

We upgraded to Rails 7 a few months ago. Ever since then we get this error - Can't verify CSRF token authenticity. It only occurs for rails/active_storage/direct_uploads and no other pages. Has anyone else run into this issue?

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John Pollard

@johnlpollard

2 months

In case this helps anyone, I had to use this command to install it successfully.

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